Conveyer for metal bars.



'PATENTBD JGHG. 20, 1907.

LHR. GEORGE. Y GONVEYER PoR METAL BARS.

y APPLICATION FILED MAB.- 2, 1907.

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JEROME R. GEORGE, OF vWORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO MORGAN COhSTRUCTlON COMPANY, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

CONVEYER FOR METAL BARS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 20, 1907.

Application filed March 2,1907. Serial No. 360,207.

To all wlzom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEROME R. GEORGE, a citizen oi the United States, residing at Worcester, in the v county of Worcester-and Commonwealth oi Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Conveyers for Metal Bars, of which the iollowing is a specification, accompanied by drawings forming a part of the same, in which Figure *1 represents a plan view of a conveyer for metal bars embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side view showing one oi the positions oiya metal bar sup- Shnilar reference letters and figures reier to similar parts in the different views. V

My present invention relates to an improvement upon the .conveyer shown and described in the Reissue Patent No. 12,520, issued to Victor E. Edwards August 14, 1906, and it has for its object to provide means for extending the inclined bearing surfaces of the conveyer bars shown in said patent, in order to adapt the conveyer for operation with that class oi heated bars which are angular in their cross section, such, for example, as I-beams andthe like.

My invention consists in a series of supplementary rocking bars provided with laterally extended arms, having -bar supporting surfaces which are parallel u with ythe inclined supporting surfaces of the conveyer yto bars when the supplemental arms are rocked to bring them into bearing relation with the bar, and it further consists in the construction and arrangement of parts as hereinafter described and pointed out in the annexed claims.

-veyer bars 4 provided with radial notched blades 5 1 and 6 arranged at right angles to each other forming triangular teeth 7 and 8. The triangular teeth are provided with inclined sides 9 'and 10, the inclination oi which is greater than the coefficient of iriction, so that a metal bar supported on the inclined edges of the teeth nea-r their apex will slide by gravity to the bottom oi the teeth and be brought into Contact with the surfaces ll at right angles to the inclined edges of `the teeth. The two series of teeth 7 and 8 are arranged on the conveyer bars with theapices of the teeth 7 in planes midway between the .apices of teeth 8. When the bar has slid to the bottom of the teeth 7 and is brought to rest against the surfaces 1l, the conveyer bars ar'e rocked one quarter turn, bringing the triangular teeth 8 from a horizontal to a vertical plane, and causing the metalbar to be liitcd by and supported upon the inclined sides and near the apices oi the teeth 8, The bar then slides by gravitydown the inclined sides oi the teeth S when the rocking motion oi the conveyer bars is reversed, causing the bar to be lifted by and supported upon the inclined sides oi the teeth 7. The rocking motion oi ihe conveyer bars 4 will cause the metal bar to be alternately supported, iirst by one set of teeth 7 and then by the other set of teeth S, with a period between cach alternate rocking motion of the conveyer bars to allow the metal bar to slide down the inclined sides oi the triangular teeth. This operation isurepeated until the metal bar has been moved along the conveyer bars 4 by a `step-bystep movement and be finally delivered upon a pair of conveyer' rolls 12 driven by miter gears 13 from a common driving shaft 14. The heated bar from the rolling mill is delivered upon one end of the conveyer bars by a longitudinal movement as it rests upon the i .arms 15 projecting from the under side of the conveyer bars 4 by means oi connecting links 1G and by connecting one oi the radial arms with a piston equipped cylinder 17.

The above described construction and operation of the conveyer represented in Figs. l and 2 of the drawings, is substantially like that shown in the aforesaid Reissue Patent to Edwards No. l2,520,and forms no part of my present invention.

Whenever bars, which are angular in their cross section, such as I-beams, are to be supported upon the inclined sides of the triangular teeth, they are liable to become caught on the apices of the teeth and held from sliding by gravity down the inclined sides of the teeth.

ln the accompanying drawings l have shown such an I-beam at 18 resting across the apices' of the-teeth 7 of the several conveyer bars, with the flange 19 over-hanging the apices of the teeth and preventing the sliding movement of the beam 18. To release heated bars of this description is the object of my present invention, and l accomplish this purpose by providing the conveyer with supplemental rocking bars 2O between the conveyer bars 4 and parallel therewith, and from opposite sides of the supplemental bf a 20 I project the lateral arms 21, preferably lying in a horizontal plane and having their tips provided with bar supporting edges 22 which are parallel withithe inclined sides oi the triangular teeth when both are raised into vertical planes and in posi# tion to supporta bar.

In Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings thc I-beam 1S is represented as resting across theapices of the vertical teeth 7 oi the conveyer, and in Fig. 2 the I-beam 18 Isaid supplemental supports into alinement bringing the arms 21 into theposition denoted by broken lines in Fig. 2. The rocking of the-supplemental bars 2O is accomplished by providing them with radial arms 23, connected by links 24, one o f said arms being connected with a piston equipped cylinder 25. .The lateral arms 2l when raised intoa vertical plane corresponding with the vertical planes of the supporting triangular teeth7 serve to extend the bar supporting surfaces and lift the rear edges oi the bars from the position shown by full lines atv18, Fig. 2, into the position shown by broken lines at 18,I Fig. 2, and prevent the fiange 19 from engaging the points of the supporting teeth.

I claim,

. 1. In a conveyerof the class described, the combination with a series of inclined bar supporting surfaces, of a se ries of supplemental bar supports and means for bringing with said bar supporting surfaces. i

2. In a conveyer of tbe class described, the combination with-a series of journaied 'conveyer bars, teeth projecting.

Ifrom Vsaid conveyer bars and having inclined sides arranged to form ways for the sliding movement of a. metal bar thereon, of a series ot supplemental arms provided with bar supporting surfaces, and means for bringing the 2 bar supporting surfaces of saidarms in supporting -relation to a metal bar h ld on the teeth of the conveyer bars.

3. In a conveyer o the class described, the combinationA -with a series of rocking conveyer bars having teeth ar' ranged in rows a'nd provided with 'bar ,supporting surfaces, 3 of aseries of rocking supplemental bars having lateral arms provided with bar supporting surfaces, said supplemental-bars being journaled between said conveyer bars, means for rocking said conveyer bars, and means for rocking said supplemental bars. v

4. In a conveyer of the class described, the combination, with a series of triangular teeth capable of supporting a metal bar upon their apices, of a series of bar supporting arms corresponding with said teeth, means for rocking said teeth, cand means for imparting a corresponding rocking motion to said arms to bring them into contact` with a metal bar when supported on the apices of saidl teeth.

Dated this 27th day of February, 1907.

JEROME R, GEORGE.

Witnesses:

PENnLoPE COMBERBACH, RUrUs B. FoWLnn. 

